Read the sentence. the team raises most of their money at the bake sale. the error in this sentence is a pronoun-antecedent voice agreement error. pronoun-antecedent number agreement error. pronoun-antecedent gender agreement error. pronoun-antecedent subject agreement error.

pronoun-antecedent number agreement error.

The answer to your question would be that the error in this sentence is a pronoun-antecedent number agreement error. The pronoun "their" refers back to the NP "the team". However, the NP subject is singular.

The sentence in question is an example of the use of singular they. Singular they is the use of the pronoun they or any of its derivative forms (them, their, theirs, and themselves) as a gender-neutral singular pronoun.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”